(n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
(n.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
(n.) A grain sieve.
(n.) To play on the harp.
(n.) To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. t.) To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are not a people who harp upon colour or race,” he said.
(2) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(3) Total mercury and methylmercury values in the tissues of the experimental animals indicated that harp seals can tolerate high levels of mercury in the brain and that the observed renal and hepatic dysfunction were related to the high accumulation of mercury in these tissues.
(4) ECoG of both hemispheres, EOG, neck EMG and EKG were recorded in 2 white (age 10 days) and 2 gray pups (age 1 month) of harp seal.
(5) Hematological and blood chemistry values were examined in harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) exposed to daily oral dosages of methylmercuric chloride (MMC).
(6) On the right is her rival, Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM, 40, a former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government, nicknamed "the harpist" ever since she was photographed for Paris Match lounging in a party gown in a forest next to a harp, like some posh wood nymph, in 2005.
(7) Further simulations showed that the lower critical temperature of a lean newborn harp seal pup with standard metabolism is only--1 degree C while it is depressed to--59 degree C as the pup grows, aquire a 10 cm thick layer of blubber and the metabolism increases to 1.5 times standard.
(8) Following a long and rich tradition of "blues doctors", Middleton is an accomplished frontman with Dr Harp's Medicine Band .
(9) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(10) The relationship between KP and HRP resides in the repeated polyhistidine sequences, (His) 6-9, from the core of the multiple tandem repeats of HRP, whereas, the peptide Ala-His-His is commonly shared by HRP and two other proteins of P. falciparum (soluble HARP and SHARP).
(11) They took up so much time that “laser harp” player Gene Breads didn’t get any time to play his instrument.
(12) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(13) World Cup knockout stage interactive planner World Cup knockout stage interactive planner Updated at 2.14pm BST 2.06pm BST The murkiness in the application of football's rules is something I have frequently written about - endless harped on about - and the lack of transparency, as well as the sheer inaccuracy, of time-keeping is equally annoying.
(14) The largest harp seal population in the world is found in Canadian waters of the Northwest Atlantic.
(15) Expired air temperature (Tex), metabolic rate (MR), and skin (Ts) and body (Tb; rectal) temperatures were recorded in four or five young (1-2 yr) harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) in air [mean air temperature (Ta) = -30, -10, or 10 degrees C] and in water [mean water temperature (Tw) = 2.3 or 24.8 degrees C, with Ta = -30, -10, 0, or 10 degrees C].
(16) condition of my present instrument I only produce ridicule"; it was enough to buy him a new harp.
(17) Samples of blubber, liver, kidney and brain, obtained from 10 male, 6 female neonatal, and 4 lactating female harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus), were analysed for DDT, dieldrin, PCB, and total mercury.
(18) There is a bizarre irony that if a woman talks about receiving abuse, more people feel compelled to abuse her – for “harping on” about it; for being a “professional victim”.
(19) This was not Soviet propaganda, harping constantly on one note.
(20) S harp Objects had also gone through several stages.
Lyre
Definition:
(n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.
(n.) One of the constellations; Lyra. See Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(2) Orpheus, the great musician of myth, sits at its centre strumming a lyre, while a fox leaps at his feet.
(3) Similarly, for the isthmus, an anterior lyre, a pallial crest, a pallial peduncle, and a posterior lyre are described.
(4) The plucked harp (lyre) and spike fiddle have been at the heart of the Nile's musical identity since ancient times.
(5) The impulse seemed archaic, quaint, but as the weeks of these Olympics have progressed, you could argue that Hannah Cockcroft and Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds, Bradley Wiggins and David Weir have not been done justice even by the vivid enthusiasm of Clare Balding and Michael Johnson – they require lyres and heroic couplets.
(6) The article shows the results of study of the causes of these complications, which formed the basis for improving the methods and techniques of the operation the principal differences of which consisted in: (1) colostomy, except for the final formation of the opening at the level of the skin, was conducted before mobilization of the rectum; (2) retroperitoneal passing of the intestine was accomplished through the upper angle of a lyre-shaped incision of the pelvic peritoneum to the left of the sigmoid colon; (3) the use of a "closed" method of flat stoma formation by cutting the intestinal wall at the level of the skin down to the mucosa and attaching it to the skin by the musculoserous coat with interrupted catgut sutures, and only after that is the excessive mucosa cut off and the intestinal lumen opened.